AP Energy News: One Dark Night in Bangkok

By Mark Gongloff

Here’s a rundown of today’s energy headlines from the Associated Press:

Sections of Bangkok, Thailand’s glittery capital, went dark for 15 minutes Wednesday as part of a campaign to raise awareness about global warming.

TXU said it swung to a loss in the first quarter after revenue plunged 28% and the electric utility took a big charge to cancel coal-fired power plants, a condition of the company’s pending $32 billion sale to private owners.

Gunmen seized four American workers in Nigeria’s southern oil region, and Eni said daily crude production had been cut nearly 100,000 barrels a day as a result of the worst bombing to hit the petroleum industry in months.

Call it the biofuel boomerang. Valentin and Nanette Humer sell their gourmet grapeseed oil to upscale Napa Valley restaurants. Then, they pick up the used oil to run their company cars.

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